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[IMGCAP(1)]Every now and again, being an executive coach brings me into conversations with a fascinating subset within the CPA world—the CPAs who want to be something else when they grow up.
Sometimes, the contemplated change is within the financial services industry—one might want to transition from being an employee into launching a private practice, or from tax preparer to financial advisor. Sometimes the destination is distant but abundantly clear—a favorite hobby one might wish to turn into an occupation, or a childhood dream put on the back burner to focus on the more practical track.
Sometimes one is not quite sure what that "something else" looks like. Either way, the conversation usually unearths a mixed bag of excitement, hope and a feeling of being utterly, profoundly, overwhelmingly terrified.
As someone who has managed multiple life and career transitions, I understand where they stand. And, as much as I wish to encourage them all to follow their dreams right now, doing so without regard for facts is bound to end in financial and emotional heartbreak. The reality is that some career transitions are successful, while others are not.
In my experience, there are five early signs that the career transition will be a success:
1. You are exceptionally clear on why you are doing this. Careers changed on a whim, and businesses started "just because," are rarely successful. Clarity on why you are doing this is a powerful motivator to get you started, and to keep you moving when things turn difficult. No one can get to this clarity but you—and as with most things that cannot be easily Googled, nailing down the answer may take time. Why are you making this move? Is it to help your clients have a fulfilled and worry-free retirement? To model for your kids that they can do anything they put their minds to? To leave behind a legacy? Or because you want to wake up every morning and look forward to what you do? Be honest.
2. You understand what your value is, and you are prepared to share it and to defend it. As Doug Autenrieth put it in "Grow on Purpose, The Nine Disciplines of Sustainable Growth," there is something very influential and highly attractive about people who know themselves to such a high degree that they are clear on the value they can add to a given scenario, are willing to share it, and are unwilling to minimize it—even in the face of pessimism. Pessimism can sound like, "Are you crazy making the move in this economy," "Can you actually make a living doing that," or "Yeah, good luck with that." People who are most successful at transitions and new beginnings remember that some will see their value, and others won't. They know when to share it, when to defend it, and when to move on to the next conversation.
3. You have reserves. Career transitions can be costly in many ways. A strong financial reserve is the obvious safety net that is necessary to bridge the gap between today's gainful, if not completely fulfilling, employment and tomorrow's vision. It is also important to think about your emotional reserves. While there is never a good time to start something new and scary, there are times in one's life that can make the transition harder to manage. Starting a new business or changing occupations are some of the top stressors that one can go through, ranking high along with the death of a family member, change in marital situation, or serious illness. Experiencing too many serious stressors within a short span of a year or two can sabotage your best efforts. Do you have the energy and the bandwidth to do this now?
4. You are prepared to make a significant investment in yourself. Your new career may call for shiny new tools—cameras and lenses, a fully equipped chef's kitchen, or the latest computer technologies, all of which can be expensive. There is also a less obvious cost that is associated with the learning curve and continued professional growth. Individuals who are extremely successful in their career transitions invest heavily on improving their skills and getting better at what they do. From seminars to conferences to working with an executive coach, they know that learning is a never-ending process and are prepared to make an investment on their path toward mastery.
5. You have a support network. Changing careers or starting a new business is a marathon. You must be prepared to take risks, live with uncertainty and watch some of your efforts fail. Doing all that alone, or in the face of unsupportive friends and family members, can make perseverance that much more difficult.
I would love to hear from CPAs who have made a career transition big or small, or ones who are contemplating a change. What set you up for success?
In her professional lives across the United States, Natalia Autenrieth has audited Fortune 500 clients as part of a Big Four team, built an accounting department as a controller of a large hospital and served as a CPA consultant to municipalities. As part of the Autenrieth Advantage team, Natalia coaches high-achieving CPAs for sustainable growth, helping them build highly profitable careers, avoid burn-out, and have more fun! Natalia lives in Southern California with her husband Doug, who is an author, executive coach, and kung fu teacher, and their son Mason. They share a home with Tasha the German Shepherd, who is highly trained and exceptionally well behaved, and Kaya the Abyssinian cat, who is a frequent candidate for a one-way ticket to Siberia. Read more about Natalia and her practice at www.AutenriethAdvantage.com.
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Clark, Linda Susan
January 5, 1950 - November 25, 2017
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Linda Susan Clark (nee Gilligan) on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital at the age of 67 years. Linda leaves behind her loving husband of almost 48 years James "Jimmy", her son James "Jamie" and her daughter Sonya (Danny Ruttan). She had endless love for her grandchildren, Dustin, Amber, Alyssa, D.J., Mikalya and Jenni. She will be sadly missed by her siblings Eleanor (late Tony Heldens), Paula (George) Clark, Geri Roberts, Freda Morris and Darrin Gilligan, her many nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles, and all those who knew her. She was predeceased by; her parents Bill and Freda (nee Bernicky) Gilligan, infant son Robert, infant sister Donna, and brothers Tommy and Billy Gilligan. Linda had a special friend in Louise Laut-Gordon on their outings to Tim Horton's each Monday morning. Linda looked forward to going to the day away program each week and had a special love for country music and enjoyed dancing.
Friends are invited to visit with the family during Linda's Celebration of Life at the Lannin Funeral Home, Smiths Falls on Thursday, November 30, 2017 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm, and again on Friday, December 1, 2017 from 10:00am until the committal ceremony at Hillcrest Cemetery at 11:00am. For those wishing to make an in memoriam donation, in lieu of flowers, please consider the Alzheimer's Society - Day Away Program or any charity of your choice. Online condolences available at www.lannin.ca

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Eight people were recognized with Envision Awards for their outstanding advocacy work to eliminate violence against Native women in tribal communities at a special luncheon during the "With Liberty and Justice for All" Conference put on by WomenSpirit Coalition.
The "ForGet-Me-Not" Luncheon was held on the first day of the two-day conference, September 16, at the Little Creek Casino Resort Event Center in Shelton, WA. The theme of the luncheon, ForGet-Me-Not, reminds us to never forget Native women who have been murdered or are missing.
Prior to the awards presentation, Caroline Felicity Antone (Tohono O'odham) told her life story accented with slides of her youth, and Star Nayea (Ojibwe) presented a video and song about domestic violence and sex trafficking.
Dee Koester, WomenSpirit Coalition Executive Director, and Ron Tso, Board President, presented the awards to:
- April James, Swinomish, 2016 WomenSpirit Coalition Board of Directors
- Sabrina Desaute, Colville, 2016 WomenSpirit Coalition Board of Directors
- Marlo Quintasket, Swinomish, for Outstanding Support
- Cheryl Neskahi Coan, Dine', 2016 WomenSpirit Coalition Board of Directors
- Annie Forsman, Suquamish, 2016 WomenSpirit Coalition Board of Directors
- Tom Tremaine, Tribal Court Judge, for Outstanding Service
- Cindy Smith, Tribal Court Judge , for Outstanding Service
- Debbie Lee, U.S. Attorney's Office, Victim Witness Liaison, for Outstanding Advocacy
The luncheon was sponsored by the Muckleshoot Tribe, Squaxin Island Tribe, and the Department of Commerce, Office on Crime Victim Advocacy.


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Ashton Kutcher kicked off 2015 by teasing fans about his relationship status on social media.
The actor posted a New Year's greeting to followers on Twitter.com early on Thursday (01Jan14), and left them believing that he and his fiancee Mila Kunis had wed in secret over the holidays.
The beach photo featured the words "Happy New Year, The Kutchers" written in the sand.
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Alien creatures known through the film, depicted the figure of the terrible shape, though similar to humans, but a lot of uniqueness. It turns out these creatures according to NASA really existed, there were about 400 planet even as their residence.This discovery by accident, when the Kepler spacecraft, NASA, looking for Earth-like planets, but instead found about 400 stars, which is thought as a place to live Alien among 156 thousand stars.
The discovery was announced by NASA as a result of the search space for 43 days by a team of researchers Kepler.
Kepler aircraft monitoring the star to see the change of light, and indicates the existence of an Alien planet passing through the earth.
"This is the most valuable data, the longest and largest of the set of photometry of stars," said David Koch, deputy principal investigator from Ames Research Center's mission, NASA, in Moffett Field, California, as quoted by Yahoo News.
He also warns that these findings will continue to grow closer and closer to the truth.
By measuring the decrease in the starlight, or in transit when the planet passed in front of them, astronomers can reduce the amount of the planet itself.
Based on these data, astronomers have discovered more than 400 planets might be inhabited by aliens, around the stars in the solar system. This includes six new discovery by French observers, which was announced earlier this week.
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During the summer we would spend most of our time outdoors with lots of us kids making lots of noise; always looking for something to do. Somebody would always have something new to try out and roller skates were one such thing. It was usually girls who had those things and were usually already proficient using them.
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Checking a pool or spa's electrical safety
A pool that doesn't meet electrical safety standards can lead to problems. Also, a safe installation increases the value of your property. Be sure to respect the approach distances in order to avoid accidents and inconveniences.
WHEN YOU NEED TO ESTIMATE THE DISTANCE TO A LINE, EYEBALL IT, DON'T USE A MEASURING INSTRUMENT! If you estimate by eye that the distance is close to the minimum required, never try to measure it more accurately by placing an instrument near the line. NEVER PLACE A TAPE MEASURE OR ANYTHING ELSE WITHIN 3 M OF A MEDIUM-VOLTAGE LINE.
If, after reading this page, YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REQUIREMENTS OR ARE UNSURE ABOUT ANYTHING, CALL HYDRO-QUÉBEC BEFORE STARTING WORK. A REPRESENTATIVE CAN HELP CLARIFY THE SITUATION.
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Use this checklist to see whether your pool or spa has been installed in accordance with electrical safety standards. In case of doubt, ask Hydro-Québec to check it for compliance.
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Water and electricity are a deadly combination!
- To be safe, have a master electrician do all the electrical work on your pool.
- Make sure you have a ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet on the wall of the house facing the pool.
- Make sure the filtration system's power cord is in good condition.
- Make sure the plug's round grounding prong is straight.
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SIDA Conference on CleanTech, Creative & Innovative ideas.
During this week Africa's Potential and more then 130 trade commissioners, ambassadors, innovators and entrepreneurs were invited to take part of SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) conference in Härnösand, the northern part of Sweden. SIDAs new initiative, the launching of the new program Business For Development (B4D). The focus of this conference aimed towards reaching out to Clean Tech, Creative & Innovative ideas in order to fight poverty in a more effective way.
During this conference world known speakers and innovators held seminars, such as Mr Günther Pauli (see the Youtube video below) Founder of the ZERI Foundation (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives), which is a global network of creative minds seeking solutions to world challenges. The common vision shared by the members of the ZERI family is to view waste as resource and seek solutions using nature's design principles as inspiration. He's also the author of the Blue Economy book, which is reaching out regarding a new business model to inspire entrepreneurs to shape a new economy based on competative innovations, creating JOBS and SOCIAL CAPITAL.
The Blue Economy began as a project to find one hundred of the best nature-inspired technologies that could effect the economies of the world, while sustainably providing basic human needs – potable water, food, jobs and healthful shelter. Starting with 2,231 peer review articles Dr. Pauli found 340 innovations that could be bundled into systems that function the way ecosystems do. These were then additionally reviewed by a team of corporate strategists, expert financiers, and public policy makers. Further meetings with entrepreneurs, financial analysts, business reporters and corporate strategy academics reduced the list to one hundred. These are listed in an appendix of The Blue Economy.
Another great inspiring encounter during the Conference was when Sunita Narain took the stage beside Mr Pauli. Sunita Narian is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Narain has been with the India-based Centre for Science and Environment since 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth. CSE recognised that the water issue today required a different management paradigm. Her passion and contagious will-power really shook her surroundings and was felt across the large theatre in Härnösand! She's a true change agent!
During next week Africa's Potential will be attending the Africa Day 2010 at the Swedish Parliament, and the discussions regarding ICT-solutions in the African continent.
Warm regards,
Team Africa's Potential.
P.S Here's one of Mr Paulis inspiring lectures. Feel free to comment your thoughts and ideas…..
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Church, brothel, music hall and pig farm. These are some of the eclectic elements that crop up in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." Director Lisa Peterson's production at Center Stage enhances this eclecticism by showcasing it in styles ranging from abstract to naturalistic, and the result is as unconventional as it is pure O'Neill.


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There have been times — especially in recent days — when the impulse to write has been as demanding and unruly as the impulse to play music. This is not the first time in my life when the two impulses have competed, and they do often threaten to fight to the death. At times I do feel like a helpless victim caught in the crossfire. Other times I find the courage to play the diplomat between them — I have written entire university essays in my head while practicing my scales or sonatas; the essays earned top grades, but not my technique. I haven't yet discovered the means to the reverse — most of my musical creations have been born while out for a walk. In the two most recent years especially, I have found fairly consistent means to put half-blinders on as I work on my classical technique, but I sense that the battles between what I am going to call (for now) my two mortal yawpers, will not come to truces any time soon.
As I sit here writing, less than 30 feet away from a piano that I would normally be spending precious moments with before her tuner arrives, I have also consciously chosen to accept that loss of musical time and to find a way to make it up later. It's painful, and it truly is like saying goodbye to a lover. There is no shortage of ways that I could expand on that theme, and I can't resist mentioning one of them: the tenants downstairs have not always been thrilled with the hours of 'grunt work' between my lover and I — the tenants don't get to hear the whispers, although sometimes we do let them in on the music of the afterglow. Ok, so yeah, the analogue breaks down for obvious reasons, but whenever the tenants say to me "it was awfully quiet up there today", I don't think they understand the agony of when the reason is that the piano and I can't get our alone time, or the fact that often when they don't hear a peep, it's because we're whispering the love notes to each other. In between trips outside for coffee and a smoke between sessions.
So now that I'm writing about other things competing for my attention: Why have I referred to the impulses as 'mortal'? Art is long, but not immortal. The soul of art may live forever, and there may be poems or songs that continue to be copied or transcribed into new media for generations. I do believe that my impulses to play music and to write are based on immortally universal longings of humanity. But I also believe that humanity is just a stage this part of the universe is going through. And the particular output of the urges — the songs, the notes on the piano, the essays that I write — may as well be the drawings in the sand by Picasso is a short story by Ray Bradbury. In the case of that story, Picasso didn't care whether anyone else saw them before they were washed away by the lapping waves. He was on a public beach, so wasn't aiming for privacy, but also wasn't advertising his sand-drawings.
In my case, I am actively posting my passing thoughts on social media. Some friends and advisors would rightfully caution or implore me to just write my thoughts down in a diary, or save them to my desktop, either to be edited later or to be deleted as irrelevant. (I almost wrote 'irreverant', which many have already witnessed). There are probably about 40 years worth of my private journals, correspondences, and formal essays residing in landfills or having gone up in flames. There are some that live in friends' basements, sharing their secrets with many other of my belongings that I have left behind in basements and garages extending from Vancouver to St. John's to New Orleans. I have a desktop and several usb chips lying around containing the content of my thoughts from about 1995, when I first started sending my ideas in emails. As for the ones that I can access from my own desktop or have already been posted to facebook, let's be real: when I'm not writing, I'm going to be searching for a piano to get back to. Editing is just not my thing. (Although I also failed at true 'stream of consciousness' writing, because I still want to at least pause long enough for some sense of structure in the moment).
So my yawps are mortal. The greater context of my borrowing from Whitman is the idea of the 'self'. I may as well have borrowed from Popeye in grunting my shanty about who I think I am. (to Yam or not to Yam?). Some of the only reading I've been able to accomplish lately has been a collection of the Upanishads. I don't think Whitman was off-base at all when he sang of the self in the lower case. I also know that the lower case self is just another picture in the sand — one grain of which may contain the entire universe, but still vulnerable to the lapping of the waves of whatever is beyond the universe. Another piece of Hindu wisdom that I haven't actually read the full context of is the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna. Detach from the results of your actions, but engage in those actions nonetheless, with the full passion of someone who yawps immortally even if the echoes only reverberate a few times before being lost to time and space, or to other louder or more eloquent yawps.
So I will write, and I will make loud noisy love to the piano whenever I can. I could look into some corkboard to lay on the floor, or I could just buy earplugs for the downstairs tenants. When I write, I do post on social media for all passersby, but I am still confident my yawps are relatively quiet. I have been known at rare times to vociferate loudly and endlessly in person, and it's not usually because of being drunk –rather just too many pent-up frustrations. For those who think I should stop writing so much, be thankful: when I write, I don't need to shout. My scales and other musical grunts may be more irritating, but we'll deal with that another time.


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With Instagram's massive popularity and highly visual nature, Expedia knew it needed to be there. Expedia wanted to launch, build, and strengthen its presence on Instagram and use this channel as a focal point for brand and merchandising campaigns.
So we got to work. We analyzed strategies and best practices of the leading brands on Instagram, as well as identified key users and influencers to partner with in promoting the channel.
PACIFIC recognized Expedia's account would live or die by one metric: How well we engaged with the community of aspiring travel photographers on Instagram.
A vital component of our ideation for both the account launch and building its following was to leverage user-generated content, and connect Expedia's account with the burgeoning travel photographer community on Instagram. We knew Expedia wanted to do more than sell on the channel: They wanted to give something back to travelers. And we knew travelers would be thrilled to see their photos get recognition through Expedia. To that end, PACIFIC created the #ExpediaPic hashtag for users to share their photos through Expedia.
Our Social team:
- Created an editorial calendar
- Wrote captions that incorporated popular hashtags as well as copy that would encourage users to visit Expedia.com to learn more
- Selected images that were colorful, epic, and authentic to engage and inspire
- Always featured a link to an ongoing Expedia campaign in the account's "About" section
Our Strategy and Insights team:
- Partnered with numerous influencers and companies to do promotional posts, which helped organically spread the word about Expedia's Instagram account
- Collaborated with Expedia's team to create Instagram campaigns that featured giveaways, discounts, and content partnerships.
We put user-generated content at the center of the account's launch, and developed and implemented two campaigns.
The first, "City vs. Country" asked users to prove whether urban or nature-based travel was better by submitting their best photos. The second, developed as an integrated collaboration between multiple Expedia teams, was the award-winning #ThrowMeBack campaign.
"By taking advantage of thematic hashtags like "#wanderlustwednesday" and "throwbackthursday," and posting images that are relevant to current events, holidays, and seasons, the account has amassed a large following in a short amount of time."
What's more, #ExpediaPic helped solicit user-generated content and helped showcase amateur travel photographers, while simultaneously spreading the word about the branded account and delivering Expedia's core messaging to the masses.
Our Strategy and Insights teams forged a multitude of content partnerships that promoted the channel and attracted advertising partners for Expedia. On top of creating and promoting numerous content partnerships, PACIFIC also frequently ran giveaways and discount offers on Expedia's Instagram, which has helped generate buzz about the account and increased social participation.


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A Twitter firestorm broke out when some soccer fans referenced Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki after the U.S. Women's National Team trounced Japan 5-2 to win the World Cup in Vancouver Sunday night.
The heat exploded after some fans tweeted remarks such as "This is for Pearl Harbor," "Japan wishing they never bombed Pearl Harbor right about now," "That 4th one was for Pearl Harbor #USA," and "Hiroshima, Nagaski and Vancouver Three locations USA has blown Japan away."
— Boku No Pico Gang (@SirJustinFromCA) July 5, 2015
Hey Japan, that one was for Pearl Harbor. U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A.
— Cloyd Rivers (@CloydRivers) July 6, 2015
Why do so many Americans lack class? #PearlHarbor is trending because of the soccer match. No wonder the world hates the US. Grow up people!
— Chris (@ChristosDallas_) July 6, 2015
I was just looking at pictures of Nagasaki and Hiroshima…oh wait those are Hope Solos nudes
— The Dantasy Land (@DannyLoPriore) July 5, 2015
Wow. Someone forgot to tell the U.S. Women's team that we already avenged Pearl Harbor. #USAvJPN
— TED (@EpicureanDeal) July 5, 2015
According to Topsy.com, "Pearl Harbor" normally rates roughly 500 mentions per day, but after Sunday's game, that number zoomed to over 50,000. "Pearl Harbor" ranked as one of the top-trending topics in the U.S. after the victory, along with "#USAvJPN" and "Hope Solo."
Over 2,400 Americans died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack. The Americans later used the first and only atomic bombs in warfare on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese surrendered immediately after the Nagasaki bombing.
Some of the blowback to the "Pearl Harbor" mentions included, "Pearl Harbor isn't funny. Hiroshima isn't funny. Nagasaki isn't funny. This isn't WW2 this is a woman's soccer match in 2015 lol," and Kami Mattioli, a college basketball editor for The Sporting News, tweeting, "Pro tip: that Pearl Harbor tweet you're typing up … don't send it, keep it to yourself, you heathen."


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Seasonal Dynamics of Leaf Litter Breakdown in a Utah Alpine Stream
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allochthonous, leaf litter, leaf breakdown, decomposition, community respiration
Seasonal breakdown patterns of leaf litter were studied in a Utah Rocky Mountain stream using box elder (Acer negundo) leaf packs between January 1976 and January 1977. Sets of 14, 5-g leaf packs were placed at two sites 400 m apart during the first week of each month. Two packs from each site were removed at 100-degree-day intervals. Leaf pack mass loss and community respiration rates were measured for each removal. Breakdown rates were fit to a negative exponential model using either days or degree days. For both days or degree days breakdown rate varied seasonally at each site and between sites. The fastest breakdown rates using days were in packs placed at the upper site in spring and summer and at the lower site in spring, summer and fall. Using degree days in the model, which factors out the temperature effect, the fastest breakdown rates at the upper site were in packs placed in July and in the following October-January period. At the lower site the fastest rates using degree days were in packs placed in July, late fall, and early winter. Highest respiration rates (mg O2/hr/g dry mass) were obtained for the June placement at the upper site and for the September placement at the lower site. These differences are probably due to differences in physical and biological conditions at the two sites.
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McArthur, J. Vaun; Barnes, James R.; Hansen, Boyd J.; and Leff, Laura G. (1988). Seasonal Dynamics of Leaf Litter Breakdown in a Utah Alpine Stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 7(1), 44-50. doi: 10.2307/1467830 Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/bscipubs/45


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US President Barack Obama has started reaching out to some of Pakistan's most fervent Islamist and anti-American parties, including one that helped give rise to the Taliban, trying to improve Washington's image in the nuclear-armed state.
Obama's special envoy, Richard Holbrooke, is initiating dialogue between the United States and religious parties previous administrations had largely shunned, both sides said.
"The purpose is to broaden the base of American relations in Pakistan beyond the relatively narrow circle of leaders Washington has previously dealt with," explained Vali Nasr, senior adviser to Holbrooke.
John Bolton, US ambassador to the United Nations during the Bush presidency, questioned Holbrooke's timing for trying to engage Taliban sympathizers on the eve of elections in neighboring Afghanistan, where US forces are battling the hardline Islamic group.
"As a general proposition, democracy in Pakistan is fragile enough now that negotiating with people that some on the democratic side of the Pakistani spectrum would think themselves are terrorists strikes me as fairly risky," Bolton said.
"What we ought to be doing is making sure that our ties with the military are strong because the gravest risk is radical penetration of the military."
At one of this week's sessions, Liaqat Baloch, a top member of the religious, right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, told Holbrooke he welcomed the new administration's public change in tone toward Muslims around the world.
But Baloch said he was disturbed to see "no change in practice" in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where Obama has stepped up military operations against the Taliban on both sides of the border.
Holbrooke invited Jamaat-e-Islami, whom some US officials compare to the banned Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to visit the heavily guarded American embassy compound in Islamabad, seeking to dispel long-running rumors that thousands of US Marines would be based there.
Holbrooke rejected the party's complaints about a Western "assault" on Islam, saying "that could not be further from the truth" with Obama, who has roots in the religion, now in the White House.
Fazl-ur-Rehman, whose Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam party was active in rousing support for the Taliban in 1990s, also got an audience with Holbrooke and his team.
Rehman denies al Qaeda's responsibility for the September 11, 2001, attacks, and once warned that if US forces invaded Afghanistan, no American in Pakistan would be safe.
In more recent years, however, Rehman's relationship with the Taliban has grown uneasy, and he has publicly supported negotiations between the US-backed government in Kabul and the Islamist group.
"His hands aren't exactly clean," Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation said of Rehman. "He is associated with the Taliban."
But she described his party as a legitimate political force that has met with US officials in the past.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari praised Holbrooke's meetings with Islamist parties as "a new era" aimed at promoting reconciliation and dialogue instead of "the violent mindset."
"We need to help Obama. He's a breath of fresh air to the world," Zardari told reporters traveling with Holbrooke.
Dressed in colorful turbans and traditional robes, most of the parliamentarians and clerics representing religious parties as well as tribes appeared to relish access to Obama's point-man for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"It's good he's listening," said parliamentarian Munir Khan Orakzai of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas -- ethnic Pashtun lands on the Afghan border -- after pressing Holbrooke for a bigger share of development aid dollars.
Holbrooke, who has been meeting mainly Pakistan's political and military establishment, called his nearly hour-long session with Baloch's Jamaat-e-Islami "the most intellectually sustained debate I've ever had in this country."
But immediately after their meeting, Baloch and his delegation took to the streets, leading a protest against US policy in Pakistan and the region. (Reuters)


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Birthdays & Parties & Posters...Oh My!
This has been the busiest few days ever! On 10/23, I turned 13, so I'm officially a teenager instead of a tween. Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes and for signing the pledge at NoKidHungry.org as my birthday gift. It's such an important cause. I'm looking forward to working with Share Our Strength, which runs the campaign. Last Saturday, I visited the organization's booth at Variety's Power of Youth event presented by the Hub, where I met Hailee Steinfeld for the first time and saw old friends, Isabelle Fuhrman, Willow Shields and McKaley Miller. (Check out my Red Carpet gallery!) I also made a cute t-shirt that says ...
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Last weekend I participated in an incredible historical event, the kind I'm going to share with my grandchildren someday! I flew to Washington, D.C., to give a speech at the Dedication Celebration of the MLK Memorial, an amazing statue built on the National Mall honoring Dr. King. It is located in a line between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials. ...
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August 1, 2008
Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. This Week: The legislature takes it down to the wire; plus the usual maneuvering, backstabbing and backslapping that we all love.
How hard has the legislature been working? On Thursday, the thirstiest day of the week, the House and the Senate both missed last call. Now that's public service. As Gov. Deval Patrick told a group of kids who were regaling him with birthday wishes, "It's insane down there right now."
In racing toward the end of the legislative session, legislators passed bills on global warming and health care costs, establishing universal pre-K education, securing Greenway funding, bailing out the debt-addled Pike, and approving several billion in new bonding expenditures. Additionally, they overrode nearly half of the Governor's budget vetoes.
Most will need several uninterrupted days on the golf course to recover from such exertion. And, as luck would have it, they'll be able to enjoy a cold one or ten on the links. That's because, just before checking out until next January, the pols legalized booze on golf courses. Fore!
The House also struck a blow for freedom and soaring eagles and such, advancing a bill that would order the state pension system to divest from Iran. That bill wasn't without some controversy, though. Byron Rushing announced that he'd be voting against the measure, complaining that the bill was "only about terrorism." In that case…
The clock did run out on two high-profile bills – Patrick's bid at criminal records reform, and same-day voter registration. Oh well. Maybe somebody'll get around to that by 2010. Maybe not.
Though distinguished by remarkable productivity, the session's end resembled the weeks that followed it, in that it was often overshadowed by House Speaker Sal DiMasi's ongoing quest to retain control over his restless Democratic supermajority. It seems that when legislators gather to vote along party lines, they also tend to plot and scheme and spread disinformation about their boss's future, and each other's ambitions.
There had been whispers that the faction lining up behind Ways and Means Chair Bob DeLeo might be using budget veto overrides to reward supporters and punish enemies. The chairman was busy working his cell phone, but the override process largely consisted of reps shuffling into the chamber, voting with leadership (Dems yes, GOP no), and then ambling back out of the room.
At one point, Speaker Pro-Tempore Thomas Petrolati had to urge his charges to remain in the room, so that they might dispense with the business ahead of them in a more expeditious manner. Some allowed themselves to be herded; others did not.
In one interesting development, the House advanced a popular bill that had been stagnant since January. According to the Herald, leadership had "put a hold" on the bill after pocketing $42,000 from an interest group opposing the legislation. And then, after being held for months upon months, the bill moved. It was Wednesday, after 5 p.m., and over at Herald Square, the paper was preparing to ship a story about the bill's curious death. By the time the story ran, on Thursday, the bill wasn't dead; it was undead and on the move!
Still, from the ceremony celebrating the death of the last bit of law Kris Mineau could cling to, you'd never know that there was angst and scandal swirling through the State House. Patrick and DiMasi laughed and embraced and delivered speeches that made onlookers weep. Senator Dianne Wilkerson cheered the end of "a very dark, evil chapter in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." Everybody cheered the fact that Mitt Romney is no longer governor. And then the crowd sang happy birthday to Patrick.
The Senate joined little kids and gay marriage advocates in celebrating the governor's aging. The body took a break from overriding his budget vetoes to enjoy a bite of Modern Pastry rum cake with the birthday man.
Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei warned his colleagues, "I might be a little unstable on my feet because that rum cake was very strong." He confirmed that he'd marked the occasion by posing for a photo with Patrick, and then attempted to get his colleagues to begin their upcoming five-month vacation on a responsible note.
"When we come back in January, chances are, we're going to come back to a real mess. We should do what we can right now to contain spending as best as we can. These agencies aren't going to fall apart. They can certain afford a little belt-tightening. I don't agree with the governor on a lot of policy issues. But he is correct on sounding the alarm."
The speech, unlike that killer midday drunk joke, went unnoticed. Looming economic disaster? Sounds like something that can wait until January. Until then, most legislators have uncontested reelection contests to worry about. Have a nice summer, fall and Christmas, everybody!
Material for this week's Hill and the Hall aided greatly by the various wire services who worked just as long hours as the legislature and didn't get any cake.
August 8, 2008
Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. This Week: World traveler Matt Amorello probably should have read the fine print; Worcester Sheriff Guy Glodis slapfightsJohn Kerry; Mike Flaherty hires a consultant; while The Hill tries its unregistered hand at lobbying.
World traveler/embattled ex-public servant Matt Amorello was not in India last week. That's because he was stuck on Beacon Hill, very nearly weeping while angrily insisting that he's not a crook. Don't laugh yet. Amorello isn't just a not-crook; he's also a sound manager who has the state's best financial interests at heart.
That was the line the former Turnpike head fed to the state Ethics Commission this week. In his final days at the agency, you see, other people wanted to allow Pike employees to cash out 100 percent of their unused sick time. They knew Mitt Romney was about to clean house, and they wanted to pork the system for as much as they could, while they could. Not Amorello. Because he only raised the buyback ceiling to 50 percent, and because he acted all angry as he did it, Amorello should be the hero here, not the victim.
So says Amorello.
The bureaucrat makes a less than convincing case for himself. While his altruism may be commendable. (He totally cursed out the patsy who changed the buyback policy; it was so blue that "I can't use the words I said in this setting," he testified). Not to mention his restraint. (He "did nothing … to enhance my position at all" because he passed up the chance to trade in his unused sick time for $73,000, and instead settled for a miserable $110,000-plus severance package).
Those qualities might not be enough to stave off a guilty verdict before the Ethics Commission.
That's because, while Amorello has proven himself to be more than adept at things like not supervising massive public works projects, he appears to be less skilled at reading. The ethics complaint against him says the buyback policy change represented an "unwarranted privilege of substantial value" for himself and for "his senior staff." Since five of his top aides used the altered policy to net $130,000—his chief of staff, for one, enjoyed a nearly $59,000 payday—well, let's just say that we may not have seen the last time the former Pike boss get teary-eyed for the cameras.
House Minority Leader Brad Jones issued a press release Monday announcing that during last week's marathon sessions the North Reading rep had cast his 4,500th consecutive roll call vote. By the time all his "Nay" votes were swatted away, he'd topped 4,600 straight votes. The lesson here, it appears, is that Republicans are better at timing their jaunts to St. Croix than Democrats are.
Turns out that the talents wielded by Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis extend far beyond making penis jokes on TV. The guy can be a total bastard during election season, too.
Glodis didn't endorse Democratic Senate hopeful Ed O'Reilly this week. And that's about all he didn't do. In a flame-throwing interview with State House News, Glodis (he works for the state, you know) explained his decision to invite O'Reilly to a Shrewsbury senior citizen picnic thusly: "I've invited John Kerry numerous times in the past, which he has never showed up at."
That wasn't gratuitous enough, so Glodis added that the "seven or eight times" he's bumped into O'Reilly in the past month have been "more than I've met John Kerry in the entire 20-plus years he's represented the Commonwealth."
Even though weather on the Cape hasn't been great lately, City Hall has been relatively quiet. Look for that to change in the coming weeks.Michael Flaherty, who is said by some people (and by some people, we mean every person ever) to be interested in the din-filled mayor's office, has begun putting his newly acquired wealth to work.
Flaherty recently dropped a sizable chunk ($36,000) of his epic $132,000 June fundraising haul with Cambridge-based Web 2.0 consultantsSocialSphere. John Della Volpe, the firm's founder, also runs polling for Harvard's Institute of Politics. Della Volpe did some consulting and polling work for Flaherty last year, but this current job looks to be heavier lifting: It cost more than twice what last year's jobs did. OCPF filings bill the expenditure as "research."
And while the Southie councilor takes the temperature of the electorate, or the Internet, or Facebooking Menino-hating young voters who remain ungrateful for their new bicycle lanes, or whatever else he's polling, he's also laying plans to have Hizzoner's good name dragged through the gutter this fall.
Flaherty's special City Council committee on moving City Hall has finally scheduled a hearing—for mid-September. It'll be the encore to last year's red-raced, book-throwing spectacular, and it's sure to throw several dozen embarrassing questions in the administration's face. Naturally, the television cameras will be there to soak it all in.
And don't forget about last week—Flaherty issued an email accusing Hizzoner of enabling the Fire Department abuses it's now railing against. Calls for internal documents and justice and the like can't be far behind. He'll whittle down that 72 percent approval rating yet…
The Hill and the Hall is putting on its unregistered lobbyist hat and demanding action on Beacon Hill. Lots of bills died unnecessary deaths in the session's final days. One of them is hurting America right now.
Here's how. The legislature could have passed a bill trading looser caps on campaign contributions for more frequent campaign finance reporting. There was support for the idea in committee. And if such a trade had taken place, journalists reporting on the few competitive races that are heating up right now wouldn't be doing so while flying blind.
As things stand, nobody running for the legislature has to disclose pre-primary fundraising and expenditure data until the week before the vote. Somebody could be up to nothing good, and nobody would know! And that, dear friends, makes the Statue of Liberty cry blood.
August 15, 2008
Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. This Week: The governor's genius move, plus: the nasty wake left by John Buonomo, or as they call it in Somerville, politics.
Gov. Deval Patrick spent the week pissing people off. Unlike all those other times, though, Patrick should be rejoicing at the sound of these wailing choruses.
The governor began the week by vetoing a multi-billion dollar pension increase for state retirees. Ralph White, president of the retirees' union (62,000 members strong), pronounced his members "very, very angry" with the governor. At least the old people don't have guns. The same can't be said for the state's cops, whom Patrick is about to squeeze out of roadside detail work, to the ire of the Massachusetts Police Association and the state AFL-CIO.
This is genius.
It's critical that Patrick start burning the organized masses that got him elected. It's one thing to cravenly cuddle up next to casino-hungry Teamsters; it's another to be seen as fattening friendly interests' wallets while the state's fiscal death spiral accelerates. He can publicly disavow interest in the Corner Office all he wants, but an economic collapse – it's a distinct possibility – would present State Treasurer Tim Cahill with an irresistible chance to take a run at Patrick.
Patrick should know by now, impressive talking-points pdfs notwithstanding, that it's public perception that will make or break him. The more he can be painted as a Beacon Hill Nero, tossing buckets of taxpayers' dollars to political supporters while hard-working Americans have to stoop to visiting Sal's Pizza three times a week just to feed their malnourished families, the more he opens himself to an insurrection.
And the surest way to guard against an insurrection will be to pretend, for just a little while, that he's Mitt Romney – and, for the sake of this great Commonwealth, make sure to smile for the cameras while he smacks around a union or two. It'll do more for his poll numbers in Haverhill than any super-sexy prime time speech ever could.
Filthy crook/hands-on office supply shopper (allegedly), John Buonomo has picked up a pair of opponents. They go really beautifully with thatindictment (this fall's must-have political accessory!)
The Buonomo saga makes a nice bookend to that other ludicrous race roiling southern Middlesex Country right now. In one corner, we've got D-listAaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton fisticuffs (the term is used quite loosely). And in the other, there's the hack who makes over $110,000 a year for the privilege of and handing plum jobs to his political supporters, and who, in spite of that generous compensation package, still feels compelled to swipe pocket change from the office copy machine. Even after he knows he's probably under investigation.
But it's the write-in Democrat challenging Buonomo who really makes this race a thing of beauty.
Meet Sean O'Donovan. He has engaged in perennial flirtation with higher office, but never risen above Somerville alderman. His consolation prize for missing out on cushier offices and fatter salaries? By staying in town, he's able to grandstand against density in his own neighborhood while cramming condos into somebody else's. And what if that somebody happens to be the relative of your Congressman (and former mayor)? No worries. That's where your checkbook comes in.
According to reports, O'Donovan and the chair of Somerville's zoning board have been sending money to each other for nearly a decade; most of the cash ended up in a charitable fund controlled by the chair. After the zoning board broomed through O'Donovan's most recent condo proposal, over the objections of neighbors and one of O'Donovan's Board of Alderman colleagues.
One project opponent told the Somerville News, "This whole process has been all about politics and Sean O'Donovan's connections. It became clear by the way he ran the meetings that [the zoning chair] wanted this project to go through." One anonymous News commenter cast the race as a contest between "a petty larcenist" and "a grand larcenist."
O'Donovan is a Democrat, but he told the Cambridge Chronicle he'll be trying to get written onto the Working Families Party ticket. He hasn't yet registered with OCPF.
Buonomo, as an officeholder, does have an active campaign account. And though he hasn't raised any money since the first half of June, he ended July with nearly $135,000 in the bank. According to campaign finance reports, Buonomo has spent roughly $4,000 on yard signs and mailers over the past two months. Wonder if they'll have to be reworked to reflect the Register of Probate's new, uh, situation. "Vote Buonomo: You know it makes cents!" Or if, since the DA is after Buonomo for crimes allegedly committed while on the job, he'll try to pay his lawyer's bills with his political supporters contributions.
A word from the other side of the aisle: Buonomo's prospective Republican opponent, Natick's John Lambert, hasn't had any activity at OCPF since his failed 2004 bid for the House. That race, part of Mitt Romney's spectacularly unproductive bid to wrest the Legislature away from Trav, King Tom and Sal, saw Lambert burn through every last cent in campaign account – and then get steamrolled by David Linsky.
Better luck this time!
August 29, 2008
Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. This Week: The most powerful guy in the House is Paul McMurtry? While the Commonwealth churns, the city waits; Plus: Mo Feeney takes over, and all is well.
Paul McMurtry is the most powerful man in the House right now. That fact is due largely to the legislature's disinclination to work at any pace that could be characterized as "speedy," or even, "workmanlike," or even "mildly determined."
The House and Senate left a whole mess of bills untended to when their formal sessions expired this month. Most of the remaining said mess of bills are routine local matters that can still be pushed through to the governor – so long as there are no objections from any of the legislators who bother to show up to work on any given day. But if just one guy decides to throw the brakes on a bill, everything is F'd for everybody.
Paul McMurtry is that one guy.
He's been derailing House sessions for two weeks now, and shows no signs of slowing down. He won't relent until Angelo Scaccia blinks first. Scaccia won't. So nothing gets done. And the two Reps' colleagues are starting to get pissed.
On Thursday, the Globe detailed the McMurtry-Scaccia flap for the portion of the political world that doesn't subscribe to State House News. McMurtry needs to get approval for a local bill granting a liquor license to a grocery store in his Westwood district. Scaccia, who reps Hyde Park, has longstanding ties to a competing supermarket, as well as to that supermarket's former-legislator-turned-lobbyist. And so, at the behest of his grocery buddies, he has vowed to block McMurtry's bill. McMurtry has retaliated by blocking virtually all other House business.
On Monday, the House met for just 32 minutes (enough time to entertain the Lebanese tourist minister) before McMurtry halted democracy. Thursday, business only lasted seven minutes. Court officers lazed around the chamber, surfing the Internet and reading aloud box scores from the Herald. They snapped to attention long enough to say the Pledge of Allegiance (punctuated, naturally, with a hushed but determined "Play ball!"). Thanks to the boozy grocery store death vendetta, McMurtry rose to doubt the presence of a quorum, and they were allowed to quickly return to making money for doing hardly anything at all.
These developments have left Antonio Cabral in a mood that could easily be described as "not too wicked pleased." He's got bills to move, and they're not moving. Hence, the displeasure. He tried to cut McMurtry off when the Westwood Rep rose to halt Thursday's session, and when that failed, he proceeded to get all angry and stuff.
Afterward, the press was ushered out of the House gallery, while the eight or so legislators present remained inside, talking and trying to hug it out. After a while, they emerged an announced that those efforts had, in fact, failed. The inaction shall continue.
Scaccia told State House News that he's not blocking the Westwood bill because of any rotten lobbyist action. Rather, he said, "What I'm doing is being very loyal to them for what they have done for my community." How does this standoff end? "Something has to give somewhere, and it ain't going to be me."
Paul Donato, who's been in charge of this circus while everybody else in the state was out of the state, said after Thursday's session that a rumored compromise between Scaccia and McMurtry had collapsed, and, "We're going to be dealing with this for some time."
Donato suggested the only way out of this pissing contest might involve raising the cap on grocery stores with beer and wine licenses. That way, McMurtry's store could get a license, and so could Scaccia's. "I'm not sure how the problem can be solved without coming up with a method for licensing supermarkets beyond the three the law allows," he said. "It would have to be one agreement that everyone in the legislature is comfortable with, but there seems to be an alternative there that could be used as a compromise."
Easy enough, right? All the legislature has to do now is get unanimous consent for the change – and hope that the lobbyists and interest groups who poured $13 million into a bruising fight over this very matter two years ago, uh, look the other way, or something.
Lost in this cacophony of grunting was the fact that Beacon Hill looked like Left Behind come to life this past week. Who knew that Jesus would only come for the Democrats? The loneliest place in the world: The bar at the 21st Amendment.
The McMurtry-Scaccia swordfight is symptomatic of a larger political dysfunction in the state. Home rule statutes mean that before municipal officials can sneeze, they have to ask the legislature for permission. And then they have to wait. And wait. And every so often, routine requests get caught up in these larger, decidedly nasty conflicts.
One recent example: Back in 2006, Boston wanted to let more restaurants sell booze. But the bill granting more licenses to the city got caught up in a long, drawn-out fight with Sen. Michael Morrissey over boating fees and name-calling. And freedom!
"Integral facets of city government are controlled by the Commonwealth, and they're not always receptive to us," argues City Council PresidentMaureen Feeney. "Sometimes, our larger, more challenging issues are almost trivial to them. The average person assumes that the city has control over what happens in the city. That's not necessarily the case. It's very limiting. It makes the process so challenging – we spend years trying to get something done that we should be able to do through an ordinance. We can't control the way things happen. Instead, we have to go hat in hand to the legislature, over and over. And no disrespect to the legislature. That's just the way the state constitution is."
The liquor license fight wasn't even the most ludicrous situation Feeney has seen. For the past four sessions, the mayor and the council have been trying to lower the speed limit on some cut-through streets, but the legislature hasn't played along. And don't even think about trying to raise a half-cent meals tax – something the country's other major cities can do on their own.
Feeney calls the current State House flap a, "teachable moment, an opportunity to shine a light" on the vagaries of home rule. "We're still a step-child to government," she says. "It's a waste of time, energy and focus, and we're just trying to operate the city in a responsible way."
This past week, it hasn't been Council President Feeney. With Mayor Menino at the DNC, it's been Acting Mayor Feeney. So what's it been like to run the show?
"We haven't picked out any new curtains for the mayor's office," she assures us. "We like it on this side of the building." She also invoked the words of the late city councilor Pat McDonough, who said, 'Acting mayors do more acting than they do mayoring.'" Feeney and Menino conferred last Friday, before he flew west, but they haven't had to confer since then.
Nothing like the Blizzard of '78, which stranded Mayor Kevin White in Florida, and left Council President/Acting Mayor Larry DiCara to run Boston in his absence. "Somebody had to stay and shut off the lights at the end of the day," she says. "But, it's been pretty ordinary. Pretty quiet. The fact that the city's still standing speaks for itself."


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The Article, "Returning Home for the First Time" was originally featured in the April 2009 Issue of "Armenian Life" magazine, published and edited by Avak & Kapriyel Bedikian, Melbourne, Australia. The Mission & purpose of the magazine was to promote and connect Armenians, to educate and inform the wider Australian community about Armenian history, culture and life. Unfortunately the magazine is not being published currently. I wrote this article on return from my trip to Armenia, with ABC TVs documentary "Family Footsteps", aired in August 2008. I'm posting it here for posterity, enjoy.


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There's a natural order to things.
In nature, the earth orbits the sun, winter follows autumn, and the sun shines on South Florida.
The same natural rhythms apply to the man-made world. Like the tides, the marketplace for goods and services also has a seasonal ebb and flow.
For example, summer ends. Kids are back in school. Modern Family, Blackish and The Big Bang Theory start new seasons and advertisers turn our attention to shopping. As fall takes hold, there's a cacophony of deals and extended store hours as retailers swarm to capture 40 percent of their annual sales during the peak shopping season.
As we move into late November, gifts are piling up in our closets. Thanksgiving brings loved ones together. The spirit of the holidays — and the impending IRS deadline for tax deductions — precipitates an outpouring of generosity. The Giving Season emerges, and for four weeks, Americans make 25 percent of all annual charitable gifts — worth nearly $100 billion. No wonder my mailboxes swell with appeals from the United Way, the Salvation Army and Easter Seals.
Which then brings the season of expanding waistlines. It starts with Thanksgiving dinner, then segues through holiday baskets from vendors and cakes and cookies at office parties. Then there's long luscious dinners with family and friends when everyone has time to cook and sleep in the next morning. Finally, it culminates with one final — "oh, what the heck" — overindulgence on New Year's Eve.
All of this, of course, launches the season that officially begins today: New Year's Resolution Season. Finally fed up with our lack of discipline, and bloated by all those chocolate-covered nuts, we stampede toward fitness centers, health clubs and gyms like wildebeests racing across the Serengeti.
You'd expect fitness centers to take a page from the retail industry and offer attractive discounts to grab market share. Instead of Black Friday or Cyber Monday, why not Fit Friday or Muscle Monday?
But it turns out that New Year's Resolution Season is a nuisance for fitness centers. Flocks of people with good intentions flood in, overwhelm the facilities, tie up personal trainers, disrupt workouts among committed regulars, and then quickly drop out and go back to their slothful routines. Who needs that?
So a quick survey of Miami-based fitness facilities like Flight Club, Cross Fit, Flywheel, Barry's Boot Camp, Crunch and Equinox didn't find a single special New Year's Resolution deal. Just the normal hooks, including free trials and volume discounts.
But that's a soft, flabby pricing strategy. A more ripped pricing strategy would look like this:
▪ Establish "existing member only" times at the gym to keep longtime loyalists happy.
▪ Eliminate free trials in January and February; after all, the New Year's Resolution market is happy to pay. ▪ Likewise, raise the single, per class price in order to make long-term packages more attractive, especially with regard to six months or longer.
▪ Make unused portions of any package nonrefundable.
▪ And then, when New Year's Resolution season is over, reinstate regular pricing.
So, without any particular special deal, how was I going to add variety to my fitness routine? To me, Fight Club seemed too aggressive. Cross Fit looked like back pain waiting to happen. And sadly, I fear that I'm not sexy or good-looking enough for Barry's or Equinox.
But a yoga studio called YogaThat on 41st Street in Miami Beach caught my attention. Their understated pitch said: Feel physically vital and more fully alive, have a clearer mind and more accepting heart, and be more open to the magic of the present moment.
Now that's a New Year's Resolution, and well worth $12.30 per class.
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The FSL A320 Wait Is Finally Ending!/
FSX. For all intents and purposes, this is the Airbus addon that is finally getting the PMDG/Majestic level treatment in terms of the most true to life functionality. It's been a very, very long wait but aircraft addons like this requite it. Here is the latest statement from team FlightSimLabs:
"It's been a bit since our last update - excuse the delay, as we're concentrating on putting together our A320-X Early Adopters' package (more details on this will be forthcoming). For now, we just *had* to share this image taken by one of our beta testers (you know who you are - thank you!) as it gives a nice glimpse of the tremendous capabilities already in the A320-X!
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Seen: At the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, part of the Boston Underground Film Festival.
Maddy (Caitlin Stasey) is a grungy lesbian teen who catches the gruesome accidental death of her friend Alexis (Felisha Cooper) on film when she breaks her neck during a daring cheerleading stunt. Months later, Maddy enacts a revenge plot against her school's cheerleaders and football players, whom she feels have trashed Alexis's memory with their wanton ways. She joins the squad and sets to work clandestinely dismantling their relationships. Frenemy lines become blurred, however, when she starts to fall for new head cheerleader Tracy (Brooke Butler). After a party with the team goes horribly wrong and the cheerleading squad winds up dead, Maddy's Wiccan ex-girlfriend Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) brings the girls back to life, with bizarre, homicidal side effects.
So I basically saw All Cheerleaders Die because of how much I liked May, the only Lucky McKee film I'd yet seen. And it isn't quite… that. It's not a bad film by any means- it's funny, violent, and a little kooky. The horror and comedy elements mix well, with a dark streak of humor running through every gory kill and squishy sound effect. You're often made to laugh because something terrible happened and it took you by surprise. The main cast perfectly embodies that haughty teenage girl stereotype, all slender and beautiful with their long hair bouncing around like a commercial. Their paranormal experience is interesting as a combination of female empowerment and sexploitation, with their bodies and minds linked in sensation, feeling each other's pain, sexual thrills, and homicidal successes. So, basically sisterly solidarity with bonus suggestive groaning and writhing.
This movie is as mean as it is ridiculous, but I'm not sure I can really pinpoint why I didn't love it. I guess it didn't feel especially original, it sort of hit all the beats you would expect it to hit, even throwing in a rape revenge angle towards the end. The script is good but not great, and like many other horror-comedies it doesn't quite have enough of either. It definitely leans more to the horror side of things with all that bloody business, but not enough to be a really compelling horror in itself. I enjoyed it while I was watching it, especially the elements of female solidarity, boy-killing, and teen snark, but it's not the kind of movie I would feel the need to watch again.
Pair This Movie With: I was definitely reminded of Jennifer's Body, given the general storyline and tone. My friend who saw it with me said both draw from Ginger Snaps, which I've been meaning to see for a while and will hopefully get to soon. And of course, if you just want more high school snark, there's Heathers, which I can't believe I've never reviewed but know that I am a fan.by


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Product: Aldo Zilli Baby Food
Price: 89p/sachet
Available from: Waitrose, Tesco, Budgens, Amazon, Wholefoods Market, Ocado, Prezzo, Real Foods
Suitable from: 4 months
Initial Reaction:Lovely brightly coloured pouches and a good size.
- NO preservatives
- NO artificial additives
- NO E numbers
- NO egg or dairy
- NO added salt or sugar
- NO bulking agents Just 100% NATURAL GOODNESS!
Cons:The 6 month stage is still very pureed.
Value for money?Good – there's a lot in a sachet.
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I didn't think that Brandon would like the fruit and veg puree, but he absolutely loved it. The Fishy Dishy had a very strong smell and flavour (yes I tried a bit), and it was quite nice.
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A couple months ago, I started a photography challenge. I'm getting through it … ever. so. slowly. I want to share with you lovelies some shots from the challenge! These photos were all taken with the Fujifilm X-T2.
A lot of these photos were taken from my little weekend trip to Montreal a while back. The shot I had the most fun doing was the candy one – I ate SO MUCH candy while making that picture. Can you guess which candy there is my favorite kind?
Here is my post from Week 1: The Self Portrait.
Landscape: Traditional Landscape
The Earth is art. The photographer is simply the witness.
18-55mm lens @ 18mm, f/4, 1/200 sec, ISO 400
Artistic: Red
Love is the act of courage, not of fear.
18-55mm lens @ 18mm, f/2.8, 1/25 sec, ISO 100
Portrait: Headshot
Best friends are the people you can do anything with and nothing with and still have the best time together.
18-55mm lens @ 18mm, f/2.8, 1/50 sec, ISO 800
Landscape: Black and White
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.
18-55mm lens @ 18mm, f/2.8, 1/7 sec, ISO 800
Artistic: Candy
Life is like candy. Sometimes it's sweet, sometimes it's sour.
35mm lens, f/2, 1/60 sec, ISO 800
Landscape: Nightowl
Everything looks better when the sun goes down.
18-55mm lens @ 35mm, f/3.6, 1/20 sec, ISO 12800
Stay tuned for part 3! Have any of you attempted the Dogwood Photography Challenge?